[TR] Triumphs doing strange things

[DAVID MASSEY]

Did you happen to notice if they were referring to an electronic version of the Bentley's on their portable devices?

Dave 


 

    On Sunday, August 6, 2023 at 06:33:23 AM CDT, John Macartney <johnbmacartney at gmx.com> wrote:  
 
 In my home town of Evesham in the U.K., the early part of August sees a weekend dedicated to a re-enactment of the Battle of Evesham in 1265. By all accounts it was a very bloody affair with neither side taking prisoners. This weekend sees the better part of 1,000 reenactors taking part with the inevitable mediaeval encampment, horses everywhere, tents everywhere and a pall of woodsmoke from a myriad campfires hanging over the town and under a continuous drizzle of rain of any Typically British summer day.
The reenactors and camp followers are taking things very seriously by dressing in period clothes, eating period food and some are even speaking Chaucer’s English. The whole scene is a backdrop of two handed swords, spears, pikes, longbows and what have you.
Imagine my surprise therefore when coming through the town last night to encounter a Spitfire and a Stag parked by the kerb. The bonnet was raised on the Spitfire and the bootlid open on the Stag with a large box of tools on the ground between. But it was the crews of these cars that intrigued me as they were all dressed a l’epoque de 1265 with swords, spears, clubs and longbows leaning against the two cars, while eating in their fingers from a number of opened packets of fish and chips strategically placed on two soft tops, as the Spitfire decanted it’s own smokescreen to add to that of the campfires. 
I’m guessing a tourist would want to photograph this scene but to me it was all quite normal - just a bit of period confusion perhaps but so typically British.

Jonmac
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